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Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…
Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an exhortation with motives, means and directions to be speedy and serious about the work of conversion. By George Swinnocke M.A. sometime fellow of Balliol College in Oxford, and now preacher of the Gospel at Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire.Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an exhortation with motives, means and directions to be speedy and serious about the work of conversion. By George Swinnocke M.A. sometime fellow of Baliol Colledge in Oxford, and now preacher of the Gospel at Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire.
London: printed by E.M. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1659
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And in order hereunto, I desire thee to observe faithfully those directions I shall give thee in the third use; for I would not only open the sore and show its danger, but also by the help of the Physician of souls, prepare a plaster; the Lord enable thee to apply it for thy cure.
And in order hereunto, I desire thee to observe faithfully those directions I shall give thee in the third use; for I would not only open the sore and shew its danger, but also by the help of the Physician of souls, prepare a plaister; the Lord enable thee to apply it for thy cure.
Take a man that is most addicted to his pleasures, and bring him to the mouth of a furnace red hot, and flaming, and ask him, How much pleasure wouldst thou take to continue burning in this furnace for one day? he would answer undoubtedly, I would not be tormented in it one day, to gain the whole world, and all the pleasures of it; ask him a second time, what reward would ⟨p. 122⟩you take to endure this fire half a day? propound what reward you will, there is nothing so precious which he would buy at so dear a rate as those torments; and yet how comes it to pass O God, that for a little gain, and that vile; for a little honour, and that fugitive; for a little pleasure, and that fading, men so little regard hell-fire which is eternal.
Take a man that is most addicted to his pleasures, and bring him to the mouth of a furnace red hot, and flaming, and ask him, How much pleasure wouldst thou take to continue burning in this furnace for one day? he would answer undoubtedly, I would not be tormented in it one day, to gain the whole world, and all the pleasures of it; ask him a second time, what reward would ⟨p. 122⟩you take to endure this fire half a day? propound what reward you wil, there is nothing so precious which he would buy at so dear a rate as those torments; and yet how comes it to passe O God, that for a little gain, and that vile; for a little honour, and that fugitive; for a little pleasure, and that fading, men so little regard hel-fire which is eternal.